Chicago Tribune, Lesson from 9/11 survivor: 'I tell people to trust their inner self'
Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis recalls a heated discussion on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, with one of his bosses regarding the location of a meeting as they walked through the outer ring of one of the corridors of the Pentagon. That discussion and the ensuing walk wound up saving his life, he told members of the Batavia Rotary Club Tuesday morning.
"The plane hit right where we had been talking 10 minutes earlier," he said. "Today I tell people to trust their inner self and tell the boss what he should do if you have to. The fact that we held to the course, a lot of people made it out, but I've always been struck by all the people that ran back in to help."
